Fr. Paul Donlan: The Rebirth and Growth of the Catholic Church By Family and Conversion Part I

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9gxcq-12146d6

In this first part of a two part interview with Fr. Paul Donlan, a priest of the Prelature of Opus Dei, our spirits will be raised, I think, by his optimism about the undercurrent of growth of the Church by virtue of family life and conversions to the faith courtesy of the Holy Spirit!

 

 

Fr. Paul Donlan: Rebirth and Growth of the Church with Family and Conversions Part I

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6xr4a-1214678

The first part of an enheartening conversation with Fr. Paul Donlan, priest of the Prelature of Opus Dei, whose optimism about the undercurrent of growth of the family and conversions to the the Church will bolster our spirits through the Holy Spirit! 

Sin, What Sin?

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vu34j-11f536e

As we wend our way to Holy Week, we should be thinking about why Christ died for us? Because of, sin. The only way to restore the relationship with God after the sin of Adam and Eve was for God to become Man, join time, join history, die, be resurrected and offer to us, once again, the joys of Paradise. But we still have to say “yes”. And that means that we have to have a sense of sin, which is lost in this modern society even among Catholics. Some thoughts from the Ordinary Catholic.

Mary, Would You say ”Yes” again?

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-hmun5-11e15d3

Given the state of the world, which never seems, despite all the technology, to get better, and given the warnings of the Blessed Mother to the human race, that seem to go mostly unheeded, I found myself wondering whether, if Mary had to do it over again, would she say that “Yes” to the Angel Gabriel. I mean, now she knows in detail, what she did not know when she was that young girl in Nazareth. What a can of worms this little question opened up for me!

If Edna and I Could Talk

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5zvg4-11d7f7d

My mind became abuzz with the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay this week, and one thing led to another and I began to wonder whether she and I could talk about the Catholic purpose of life without rancor, but more, whether she might be drawn to it. But then, that’s a problem for all of us, even Catholics, no? What is the purpose? To know, to love, to serve, praise, obey God in this life so that we may be united with Him in the next. That’s not something most people, including Catholics, like to hear. 

A Perfect Ordinary Day

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-uhhaa-11c36ba

This episode was initially going to be a description of a rare day of peace doing ordinary things, but it turned out that it had real connection to the retreat I am trying to do, the ebbs and flows of consolation in the Lord and desolation because of original sin and how His sacrifice leads transforms desolation, suffering, into eternal consolation, into joy itself.